The steady states and nullclines and (blue and brown) are shown in the plot.

From the snapshots, is an unstable node, and are either saddle points or stable nodes, and is either a saddle point or a stable node.

The linearized analysis (see the stability tab) confirm these conclusions. Indeed, for , both eigenvalues are positive. For , , and , there are either two negative eigenvalues or two real eigenvalues of opposite sign.

Coexistence (i.e., steady-state ) is possible only if the self-inhibition term dominates the interaction term ().